Novacem - Imperial College London - Low-carbon cement
J. Frank Brown, Dean, Insead, right, presents the ACES Energy/Environment Award to Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, director, Novacem.
Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, whose company Novacem has a new and promising process for making cement without making carbon dioxide at the same time – currently one tonne of carbon dioxide is released to make one tonne of cement – carried off the Energy/Environment award. The judges noted in particular the opportunity to reduce the production of carbon dioxide, given that the cement industry produces 5 per cent of the world’s industrial output of CO2. Novacem is a spin-off from Imperial College London, UK.
